BACKGROUND Journal clubs are employed by education and healthcare institutions to facilitate learning about study design, to teach critical reading of the literature, and to help trainees and practitioners keep abreast in their fields. Our respiratory care department initiated a journal club that was open to all respiratory therapists in the community. The articles were selected by the journal ...

BACKGROUND Sympathetic block causes vasodilatation and increases in skin temperature (T(s)). However, the T(s) response after specific nerve blocking is unknown. In this study, we hypothesized that T(s) would increase after specific blocking of the nerve innervating that area. METHODS Forty-six patients undergoing hand surgery were included. We performed ultrasound-guided, specific nerve bloc...

Introduction Brachial artery is the continuation of axillary artery at the lower border of teres major muscle. It gives profunda brachii, nutrient artery to humerus, superior and inferior ulnar collateral arteries and muscular branches in the arm. It ends by dividing into radial and ulnar arteries at the neck of radius. Radial and ulnar arteries descend in the forearm pursuing a typical course ...

True radial artery aneurysms are uncommon pathologies and have an organic cause, unlike trauma-induced false aneurysms. A 52-year-old man presented with a pulsatile mass at the anatomical snuff box area of his left hand. The aneurysm was repaired with reconstructive procedure. Although many posttraumatic and iatrogenic cases of false aneurysm of the radial artery have been reported; there are a...

The radial basis function interpolant is known to be the best approximation to a set of scattered data when the error is measured in the native space norm. The approximate moving least squares method, on the other hand, was recently proposed as an efficient approximation method that avoids the solution of the system of linear equations associated with the radial basis function interpolant. In t...

Graph-theoretical analysis of brain connectivity data has revealed significant features of brain network organization across a range of species. Consistently, large-scale anatomical networks exhibit highly nonrandom attributes including an efficient small world modular architecture, with distinct network communities that are interlinked by hub regions. The functional importance of hubs motivate...

this paper presents a comparison study between the multilayer perceptron (mlp) and radial basis function (rbf) neural networks with supervised learning and back propagation algorithm to track hand gestures. both networks have two output classes which are hand and face. skin is detected by a regional based algorithm in the image, and then networks are applied on video sequences frame by frame in...

The dorsum of the hand is a very specialized region with thin and fragile skin characterized by poor subcutaneous tissue. The dorsal aspect of the hand is frequently prone to different types of injuries (crush, degloving, hot press, friction...) resulting in exposed tendons and bone. The treatment of cutaneous defects may be obtained with local pedicle flaps, distant pedicle flaps or with free ...

Youth sports club is a main place that contemporary youth to take sports fitness exercises and complete sports activities, due to clubs offer to sports enthusiasts and are convenient to exchange sports experiences, are popular among youth. Therefore, further develop and perfect youth sports club has become one of important tasks in current stage youth physical education. The paper starts from i...